TechAdvance

MARCH 10, 2025

The PSTN switch-off isnt just about traditional landlines. If your business uses any of the following, you could be impacted: Business Phone Lines Any landline-based systems still running on PSTN or ISDN will need replacing with modern VoIP solutions. What Services Will Be Affected?

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Blandin on Broadband

AUGUST 10, 2024

Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) released the statement below following the unanimous Senate Commerce Committee passage of the bipartisan Rural Broadband Protection Act. As co-chair of the Senate Broadband Caucus, I’ll keep fighting to close the digital divide and ensure Minnesota families can reliably access the high-speed internet they need.”

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USTELECOM

MARCH 25, 2024

Today, the march of progress has finally come for the old copper networks that long ago served as the primary conduit for landlines. High-speed broadband emerged from the pandemic as an essential bridge to economic opportunity, health care, education, and more. Almost all “home phones” today are already powered by broadband.

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Blandin on Broadband

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Department of Commerce approved Minnesota’s plan for broadband infrastructure deployment. This development advances Minnesota to the next step in their planned affordable broadband rollout across the state. However, many households in Minnesota currently don’t have a reliable broadband connection,” said Klobuchar.

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Broadband Breakfast

MARCH 3, 2025

  The CWA says that abandoning copper and discontinuing landline services in rural areas without adequate fiber infrastructure would leave those communities without reliable service.

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Broadband Breakfast

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

2, 2024 – A key Alaska city and a popular port of call for cruise ships has not had landline internet and cell phone service for days, and it could be at least another week before the restoration of normal service. Landline communications have not been affected, and the police department said 911 calls were getting through.

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AT&T Connects

OCTOBER 17, 2024

AP-A is a digital phone service that uses our reliable wireless network and any broadband connection as a backup. Go deeper: With AP-A, customers can keep their same number and use the devices they already own – and is often the cheaper option compared to the average cost of landline service. What does this mean for our customers?

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Broadband Breakfast

JANUARY 27, 2025

Copper networks are costly to maintain and can’t provide competitive broadband speeds, but regulators don’t want swaths of rural and low-income households to also lose access to 911 and voice services.

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All West Telecommunications

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Cost-Effectiveness: Traditional landlines and older infrastructure can be expensive to maintain. High-Speed Broadband Internet Fast and reliable internet is essential. This efficiency is crucial for small businesses striving to manage limited resources effectively.

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Blandin on Broadband

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Mediacom reports via Global Newswire … Mediacom Communications announced completion of the first phase of construction on a fiber-to-the-home network funded with support from Minnesota DEED’s Office of Broadband Development. million of private capital to connect this previously underserved community with fiber broadband.

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Broadband Breakfast

OCTOBER 5, 2024

I’ve often seen cellular touted as a backup when landline broadband is down – but when the fiber networks that feed cell sites are decimated, the wireless coverage leaves along with normal broadband. Broadband Breakfast accepts commentary from informed observers of the broadband scene.

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Broadband Breakfast

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

21, 2025 – Pennsylvania broadband advocates pressed the state’s Public Utility Commission on Thursday to require state-specific consumer protections before approving Verizon’s proposed acquisition of Frontier Communications. "If I had a chance to move away from Frontier, I would do it in a heartbeat," he said. "My

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AT&T Connects

JANUARY 15, 2025

Were also proud to offer AT&T Phone Advanced , a new product that meets FCC requirements to replace traditional landlines. It uses broadband or wireless service to connect customers like a landline would. Were committed to ensuring no customer will lose voice or 911 service during this transition.

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TechAdvance

JUNE 6, 2024

Initially set for 2025, this extension provides an essential buffer for consumers and businesses to transition from analogue to digital landlines seamlessly. This move is part of a broader strategy to build and connect customers to future-proof, full-fibre broadband. Why the Delay? Key Changes and Improvements 1.

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US Telecom

OCTOBER 18, 2024

landlines and in urgent need of modernization. KEY POINTS Broadband Providers Invest Heavily in U.S. Networks: America’s broadband providers have a proven track record of investing heavily in the nation’s broadband infrastructure. landlines, USF’s current funding mechanism is unsustainable.

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VoIP Review

MARCH 4, 2025

Recent research highlights that 22% of SMEs still use traditional systems like landlines and fax machines. A lack of action could leave them behind as 73% of UK businesses now depend on high-speed broadband and mobile connectivity. This reliance could lead to constant disruptions as the older network phases out.

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Mark Goldberg

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

I promised a look at this report in my recent post on rural broadband solutions. ” Looking at other data from the 2021 Survey on Household Spending, CMI found the following changes in average household spending on each of these items from 2010 to 2021: Landline telephone services -56.4% Communic@tions Management Inc. in 2021.

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AT&T Connects

JUNE 18, 2024

For most of the 20 th century, this meant access to landline telephones. We need to update what’s broken and, except for one-time capital funding projects like the Broadband Equity, Access and Deployment Program, centralize ongoing broadband funding programs to maximize resources and reduce waste. What’s changed?

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EldoTelecom

JUNE 27, 2024

AT&T CEO John Stankey said the goal of the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) Program should be universal service, leveraging $42.5 billion in tax dollar subsidies appropriated in the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act of 2021(IIJA) to attract private investment to attain it.

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EldoTelecom

AUGUST 29, 2024

Instead, Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite and fixed wireless service (FWA) using unlicensed spectrum may have to suffice to fill the many thousands of holes in the Swiss cheese deployment of landline advanced telecommunications infrastructure over the past three decades.

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IEEE ComSoc

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

With a market value of over $7 billion, Dallas, TX based Frontier provides broadband (mostly fiber optic) connections to about three million locations across 25 states. Frontier is in the midst of upgrading its legacy copper landline network to cutting-edge fiber. cellphone carrier that lacks a large landline business.

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IEEE ComSoc

AUGUST 2, 2024

AT&T and Verizon are spending billions of dollars to grow their existing fiber-optic networks and add to the millions of broadband clients they already serve, mostly in regions covered by their historical landline-telephone infrastructure.

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Broadband Breakfast

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

While the rising global demand for copper has driven much of this theft, with prices increasing by more than 60% over the past four years, the issue extends to 5G small cells, wireless towers, fiber-optic lines, and even landline telephones, industry experts said.

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US Telecom

JUNE 3, 2024

The pandemic brought into sharp relief the reality that high-speed broadband connections are essential to a better life – from healthcare and education to jobs and entrepreneurial opportunities. In fact, every American with a cellphone or landline will see the USF fee on their bill drop by roughly 90 percent. This work cannot wait.

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Broadband Breakfast

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Other times, they benefit—such as when they are allowed to bundle internet, cell phone, cable, and landline services into exclusive packages. Broadband Breakfast accepts commentary from informed observers of the broadband scene. It is a protected, regulated industry in which policy decisions constantly shift.

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Mark Goldberg

JANUARY 29, 2025

” The courts ruling confirms that broadband internet must be classified as an information service under Title I because it enables users to store, retrieve, and manipulate datanot just transmit it. households have a landline phone, down from nearly 50% a decade ago. Consider how we communicate today. Only a quarter of U.S.

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EldoTelecom

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

billion Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) Program funded by Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) of 2021 could see its appropriation reduced to $10 billion under the incoming Congress and Trump administration. Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE Longtime telecom blogger Doug Dawson speculates the $43.45

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Broadband Breakfast

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Copper networks are costly to maintain and can’t provide competitive broadband speeds, but regulators don’t want swaths of rural and low-income households to also lose access to 911 and voice services.   The company is still in the process of securing FCC approval to use Phone Advanced as a landline replacement.

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EldoTelecom

DECEMBER 27, 2024

advanced telecommunications policy has been bandwidth focused: defining and delivering broadband speed and not modernizing the nations legacy metallic telephone and cable TV delivery infrastructure to fiber. For the past three decades, U.S. Blair Levin, a widely quoted analyst and former U.S.

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